About The Program Leaders.

Between us we have over 100 years experience in the use of instructional technology and its application in the enhancement and transformation of schooling.

Mal’s background is in educational administration at the school and system level while Roger’s is more from the technology and marketing industries, with however both of us in our mature years focussing on how best to use the digital technology to transform the quality and relevance of schooling in the 21^st century.

Mal Lee

Mal Lee is an internationally published educational consultant, historian and author specialising these days in the growing of nation’s young being digital, the evolution of digitally connected families and the implications of that global phenomenon for schooling, families and societies in general.

His focus in recent years has been on readying of a history of the global evolution of digitally connected families, 1990-2022, and the preparation of a suite of supplementary articles on the implications for the families of the young, the digitally unconnected, schools and governments.

Mal, as one of the founding architects of the Australian Capital Territory’s (ACT) education system, instigator of the ACT being the first Australian system to introduce the IB, former secondary college principal and director of schools has this year had the opportunity to collaborate with former colleagues and the ACT Department of Education to celebrate 50 years of unique ACT schooling.

Mal has now released seven publications with ACER Press.

• 2008 – Leading a Digital School with Professor Michael Gaffney
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2009 – The Use of Instructional Technology in Schools with Dr Arthur Winzenried
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2009 – The Interactive Whiteboard Revolution – Teaching with IWBs with Chris Betcher
• 2010 – Developing a Networked School Community with Professor Glenn Finger
• 2012 – Bring Your Own Technology with Martin Levins
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2013 – Collaboration in learning: transcending the classroom walls – with Dr Lorrae Ward
• 2016 – BYOT and the Digital Evolution of Schooling – with Martin Levins

Mal has published with Hudson and Brown

• 2016 – A Taxonomy of School Evolutionary Stages – with Roger Broadie
• 2016 – BYOT and the Digital Evolution of Schooling – with Martin Levins
• 2018 – Your Kids Being Digital. A Guide for Digitally Connected Families – with Roger Broadie and Professor Peter Twining
• 2019 – The Creation, Sustaining and Revitalisation of the ACT Secondary College Model

Roger Broadie

• Co-founder of Liberating Learning, member of the management team and one of the Yorkshire Local Partners.
• Instigator of the Naace 3rd Millennium Learning Award, with a key role in its development
• Interim strategic lead for ICT for Blackburn with Darwen and Bolton BSF pending appointment of the ICT Programme Director and ICT Transformation Lead
• Consultant to, and then Business Development Director for Frogtrade as the company grew from 11 to 60+ staff
• Coordinator of Becta/Naace projects on transformed learning and ICT CPD and leader of think tanks on personalised learning and Building Schools for the Future
• Provision of marketing and strategic project consultancy to 3Com, Adobe, AOL, Apple, Capita Education Services, Cisco, Compaq, DfES, East Midlands Broadband Consortium, Frogtrade, IBM, Intel, KPMG, Macromedia, NETg, Online Media, SCET, SIR software, Sun Microsystems, TASC Software and YDP.
• Chief Executive of the European Education Partnership and leader of its initiatives to inform policy makers and education leaders of the changes necessary in areas such as learning content, pedagogy, teachers’ skills and use of learning platforms to maximise the value of ICT in education and the learning benefits
• Creation of Learning Markets Analysis Ltd and its European network of national experts to analyse the use of ICT in education across Europe and the business opportunities.
• Organiser and coordinator of the government-level EU Partnerships in Practice conference 1997, Apple’s European education-leader conferences 1998/9, and various conferences in the UK.
• Leading Acorn’s education marketing between 1987 and 1996 including establishing the Acorn in Education Centres in conjunction with local authorities and implementing an online education service in the Cambridge interactive TV trial.